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...people in this industry that I would just as soon have a shake-hand deal with as a legal contract." -Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation chairman, New York Times...
...Britain's institutions - the Church of England in Racing Demon, the tabloid press in Pravda - are so well-researched that his critics have sniffed that he's a better journalist than playwright. Before the opening night of Pravda, a 1985 collaboration with provocative British playwright Howard Brenton about a Rupert Murdoch-like press baron, the show's producers were so nervous about the similarities that they consulted a libel lawyer. In Obedience, Struggle and Revolt, a 2005 collection of his lectures, Hare recalls the lawyer's response: "Your play portrays a megalomaniac psychopath who drags his newspapers downmarket...
Harold Pinter was speaking to the press just after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. "I was told today that one of the Sky channels [the satellite news network owned by Rupert Murdoch] said this morning that Harold Pinter is dead.' Then they changed their mind and said, 'No, he's won the Nobel Prize.' So I've risen from the dead...
...Murdoch, Rupert •Bill O'Reilly is despised by •"brilliant" gay joke is told...
...Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch By Michael Wolff Broadway; 446 pages...